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The stock market can be profitable but unreliable so whereas luck is good, control is better. As the stock index of wares in local stock exchanges is in part dependent on those held in the holds of shipships, it is possible for the player to induce an artificial increase in supply by flying a ship into the stock market region even if there is no intent to sell the wares to meet demand. It is then possible to further increase monopoly of supply by purchasing all available copies of the ware in the Stock Exchange region. This enables the player to leverage stocks by flying a ship through a single gate into a Stock Exchange region to fully reduce the price of stocks (index of >100) for a specific range of goods before flying the ship back through the gate to increase the prices (ideally an index of 0) for a large profit margin. As the number of stocks available are dependent on the number of the ware in the region having a TL full of the ware(s) can easily generate numbers of stocks worth tens of millions to over a billion credits profit per transaction. By overtuning the ship used for stock market manipulation with Pandora Tunings, this process can be performed several times per minute not only making the player extremely wealthy but also gaining Trade Rank at insane rates.
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